Biblos tes demosias euches kai teleseos mysterion kai ton allon thesmon kai teleton tes ekklesias, kata to ethos tes Agglikanes Ekklesias. [Bound with:] Psalterion toy Dabid, kata tous Hebdomekonta.

Bookseller Notes

A large margined copy, in an attractive contemporary binding, of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer and the Psalms, translated into classical Greek by James Duport (1606-1679), sometime regius professor of Greek at Cambridge and an important tutor to the scientist Isaac Barrow. His reputation as a scholar and a poet had been established in 1637 with a Homeric translation/paraphrase of the Book of Job, and he returned to this theme throughout his life, translating the Song of Solomon, Proverbs, and Ecclesastes in 1646 and producing these two volumes, usually found together and both simultaneously published in 8vo and 12mo (the latter in two variants), in 1664/5.